Category: Jochem Snijders
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The Earth as Human Condition: Against Negative Worldbuilding in the Anthropocene
In this essay, we will use two thinkers that are not normally associated with debates surrounding the Anthropocene: Hannah Arendt and Achille Mbembe. Even though both of them are predominantly political thinkers, we think their ideas are a good avenue to explore when thinking about the Anthropocene. We aim to do three things within this…
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Off the Record – Heleen Murre-van den Berg (part II)
First of all, congratulations on your appointment as the Dean of our faculty. [1. This interview was translated by Janneke Toonders en Mireille Kouevi. The interview took place in September of last year (2021); the text has been somewhat updated to reflect the context of early March 2022.] You have challenging times ahead of you.…
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Off the record: Heleen Murre-van den Berg
Splijtstof erkent dat de inhoud van dit interview een gevoelig onderwerp aansnijdt en dat sommige mensen deze gebeurtenissen (of soortgelijke gebeurtenissen) hebben meegemaakt. Het is niet onze bedoeling iemand hiermee te kwetsen of van streek te maken. We publiceren dit interview omdat we het belangrijk vinden te erkennen wat er is gebeurd en passief zwijgen te…
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Status Quaestionis – Tamar Sharon
Each Status Quaestionis Splijtstof interviews a teacher or researcher in philosophy about their current projects and academic topics of interest. For this edition Jochem and Ted visited dr. Tamar Sharon, associate professor practical philosophy at the Radboud University, and co-founder of the brand new interdisciplinary Hub for Security, Privacy and Data Governance (iHub). We sat…